Academic Associate Program (Job Opportunity)

North Shore LIJ currently recruiting premedical students who are either in their senior year or recently graduated and are taking at least one year off prior to attending medical or graduate school. Academic Associates receive full benefits, a competitive stipend, and work closely with experienced researchers and faculty in the emergency department. 

 

An Academic Associate’s responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Aiding with the development of new study protocols, IRB submissions, grant proposals, and a wide array of professional scholarly activities
• Overseeing the daily goings on of multiple research studies by screening and enrolling patients, reviewing charts, administering surveys, collecting and entering data, and searching literature
• Developing poster presentations and writing abstract submissions and manuscripts – for which they are frequently coauthors
• Coordinating bi-monthly meetings of the Department of Emergency Medicine Research Committee
• Facilitating the coordination of academic activities such as departmental symposia and Continuing Medical Education (CME) conferences
• Recruiting, training and managing a team of 12-25 volunteer research interns throughout the fall and spring semester, and close to 60 volunteer research interns during the summer, and
• Organizing educational activities for the research interns

Proficiency with software applications such as Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word is highly recommended. Strong ambition, motivation, and the ability to multitask, as well as interpersonal and leadership skills, are absolutely necessary for these positions.

If you would like to further explore this opportunity, please feel free to visit our website, which will be updated in the near future, at http://nsuhed.com/academic-associates-programs.html.  We are currently accepting applications for the 2012-13 academic year and urge interested students to submit their cover letter, résumé, list of references, and unofficial transcript as soon as possible. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Rahela Aziz-Bose (razizbose@nshs.edu) or John Pizzuti (jpizzuti@nshs.edu) via e-mail or by calling 516-562-1513.

Info Session for Global Medicine Program

For More information, visit: www.usc.edu/msgm or contact Dr. Nezami via e‐mail: nezami@usc.edu or phone: 323.442.3141

Problems Without Passports Summer 2012

Problems Without Passports Summer 2012
BISC 499: Challenges in Global Health at Oxford University

BISC 499 Challenges in Global Health will again be taught by a distinguished group of physicians and faculty at Oxford University in Great Britain over a 3-week period in the summer of 2012. The goal of this course is to address current challenges faced by health professionals in delivering consistent health care to all populations worldwide. The student participants will focus on five major areas, each of which will introduce a number of associated 21-century issues:

• Challenges in Global Health addresses the major public health challenges in developing countries and their remedies
• Health Policy and public health examines the major principles of public health and the effect of different cultures on its implementation
• Tropical Medicine reviews the more common tropical infectious disease and how they are treated in areas with limited resources
• Vaccinology explores the difficulties in making and distributing vaccines in the third world
• International development and health aims to look at the broader issues and challenges to health in those countries struggling with modernization in a global economy.

This course was taught for the first time during the summer of 2011. This charter class enrolled 13 students. Some of their Oxford blogs can be found:
http://dornsife.usc.edu/global-health-oxford

Program Requirements
Students must be on a pre-health track with an overall 3.0 minimum USC gpa. Students must also be enrolled for classes at USC in the Fall 2012.

Nuts & Bolts
Tentative Course Dates: July 15- August 5, 2012. These dates may shift as we are currently working to secure housing in Oxford.

Costs: Again costs are tentative until we have a housing contract. However, costs should be similar to those from summer 2011 which can be found at:
http://dornsife.usc.edu/bisc-499/

Exceptional funding for all Presidential/Trustee scholars can be applied to the cost of this course as can SURF funding (for Dornsife majors).

Syllabus 2011: Again, see above link! The lecture topics and side trips from 2011 will be similar for 2012.

Class Size: A maximum of 20 students will be admitted to this course for 2012.

Application
To request an application, please contact Judy Haw at judyhaw@usc.edu.

Application Calendar
Friday, October 21 -- Program Q&A: 2:30 – 4:00 PM in VKC 102
Friday, November 4 -- Applications Due to Pre-Health Office Located FIG 107
Nov 7-11 -- Interviews
Monday, November 21 -- Decisions Announced

 

Additional questions: Email Judy Haw at judyhaw@usc.edu.

Monday October 24th- KSOM Research Seminar Series Dr. Timothy J. Triche, CHLA in Aresty at Noon

KSOM Research Seminar Series

 

Monday, October 24th

at 12 noon in Aresty Auditorium

Timothy J. Triche, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Cancer Biology, and Pediatrics

The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

“The Central Role of Non - Coding RNA in Cancer Biology”

Click Here to Watch the Live Webcast!

A light lunch will be served in the foyer at 11:45 am

Abstract: While a great deal of attention has been devoted to DNA mutations, altered methylation, and patterns of mRNA expression in cancer, little attention has been paid to non-coding RNA (ncRNA). In reality, most RNA transcription in the genome is non-coding and recent work from our lab and many others has documented these transcripts are by no means 'transcriptional dark matter', as has been alleged. Rather, they are highly functional, involved in many key processes in development and in cancer biology. Some, like XIST, are vital to X-chromosome inactivation. Others, like HOTAIR, control key processes in metastasis, like epithelial-mesenchymal transition in breast cancer. In the course of our studies of high-risk childhood cancer, we have encountered a plethora of ncRNAs that appear to dictate diagnosis and prognosis. We have studied one transcript in Ewing's sarcoma in particular, AK057037, and have determined it is involved in normal brain development and is a key determinant of the metastatic phenotype. Current work is attempting to elucidate the mechanism(s) by which this occurs.

 

Keck Research Advancement

ResAdv@keck.usc.edu

(323) 442-7732

Medlife: Spring Break Volunteer Trip to Lima, Peru!

Meet the Dean of The University of Queensland School of Medicine Ochsner Clinical School

The University of Queensland School of Medicine
Ochsner Clinical School

Two Years in Brisbane, Australia; Two Years in New Orleans, LA
Semester Starts January 2012

October 31, November 1 and 2
Los Angeles, San Diego & San Francisco

MEET THE DEAN INFORMATION SESSIONS

 

Meet Professor David Wilkinson,
Dean and Head of School
MBBS, MD, PhD

· USMLE Prep, see http://www.mededpath.org/usmle_prep.php.
· Match Day Participation
· U.S. Federal Loans Available to Eligible Students
· The University of Queensland was ranked among the 50 Best Universities in Life Sciences and Biomedicine by “US News and
  World Report” in 2011, see
http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/best-universities-life-sciences-and-biomedicine?page=2
· Ochsner ranked among the top 5% of hospitals in the U.S. for exceptional patient care for 2010 by “HealthGrades”

Please see the new UQ Ochsner video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDks9JuzL0I.

Los Angeles – Monday, October 31 at 4 – 5pm 
University of Southern California

San Diego – Tuesday, November 1 at 5 – 6 pm 
University of California, San Diego
(for UCSD students and their guests ONLY)

San Diego - Tuesday, November 1 at 7 – 8 pm
San Diego State University San Francisco - Wednesday, November 2 at 7 – 8 pm
San Francisco State University

Refreshments Provided

If you would like to pass this invite on, please use the "Forward to a Friend" link at the bottom of this e-mail.

RSVP at www.mededpath.org/infosessionca

Please remember to bring your ID to the event. If you are bringing guests, please include their names, as the security desk will need a complete list of attendees.
If you have any questions, please contact Thea Volpe, PhD

Summer Medical and Dental Education Program

Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) is a FREE (full tuition, housing, and meals) six-week summer academic enrichment program that offers freshman and sophomore college students intensive and personalized medical and dental school preparation.

SMDEP is implemented at 12 program sites across the nation. Each program site provides scholars with academic enrichment in the basic sciences and math, clinical experiences, career development activities, learning and study skills seminars, and a financial planning workshop. Program sites vary on how they deliver each of these required components and when the programs begin. Applicants are encouraged to review program site information below. Also, you can compare sites by viewing one of the matrices under Compare Program Sites.

 

For more info visit:
http://www.smdep.org/progsites/basics.htm